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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development
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2. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.
Sight Words
Profile
Grade equivalents
Consonant
3. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
Phonics approach
Vowel
NICHD
4. Confirmation and Fluency - Decoding skills - Fluency - additional strategies
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5. Children may be physical and socially immature - may be awkward in social situations - may have difficulty reading social cues - may have trouble finding the right words - stammering. - may feel anxious in school
Syntax
Direct Instruction
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Latin layer of language
6. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.
Norm-Referenced Test
Anna Gillingham
Phonology
Percentile
7. The number of words a student can read correctly in a given period of time.
ALTA
Accuracy
Social language
Attention
8. MSLE instruction requires that organization on material follow the logical order of the language. Sequence must begin with the easiest and progress to more difficult material. Each step must be based on prior knowledge.
Cognitive Assessment
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Grade equivalents
Combination
9. Whole body learning
Semantics
Open Syllable
Kinesthetic
Percentile
10. A standardized test designed to efficiently measure the amount of knowledge and/or skill a person has acquired - usually as a result of classroom instruction. Such testing produces a statistical profile used as a measurement to evaluate student learn
Achievement test
Dyslexia
Phonology
Cedilla
11. A step taken by school personnel to determine which students are at risk for not meeting grade level standards.
Modern English
Syllable Instruction
Accent
Universal Screening
12. A syllable ending with one or more consonants. The vowel is usually short.
Raw score
Latin layer of language
Linguistic Method
Closed Syllable
13. The ability to segment words into their component phonemes. Is an important aspect of phonological awareness
Phonemic Awareness
Joe Torgesen
Grapheme
Diagnostic tests
14. Academic Language Therapy Association
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
Semantics
Six basic types of syllables
ALTA
15. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test
Reliability
Morpheme
Latin layer of language
Synthetic Instruction
16. An affix attached to the beginning of a word that changes the meaning of that word.
Prefix
GORT
CTOPP
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
17. Was a pivotal event in English history. It largely removed the native ruling class - replacing it with a foreign - French-speaking monarchy - aristocracy - and clerical hierarchy. This - in turn - brought about a transformation of the English languag
The Norman Conquest
ADHD
GORT
Reading Comprehension Support
18. Changes in curriculum - supplementary aides or equipment - and provision of specialized facilities that allow students to participate in educational environment to fullest extent possible.
Derived Score
Rate
Semantics
Modification
19. State Law - Requires administration of reading instruments to diagnose reading problems. Each district does - has to notify parents and provide instruction
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Syllable
Texas Education Code 28.06
Affix
20. A letter or a group of letters attached to the beginning or ending of a base word or root that creates a derivative with a meaning or grammatical form that is different that the base word or root.
Affix
Tilde
Oral Language
Chall's Stage 3
21. Set of principles that dictate the sequence and function of words in a sentence in order to convey meaning - must include grammar - sentence types - and mechanics of language
Syntax
Universal Screening
Modern English
Diphthong
22. Involve at least two people. It includes the ability to maintain eye contact - understand body language of others - take turns in a conversation - stick to the subject - and use oral language appropriate for the situation.
Social language
Grade equivalents
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Breve
23. A single functioning or signaling unit of our word patterns. The separate sound units of spoken words.
Phoneme
Standard Scores
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Prefix
24. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept
Frank Smith
Composite Score
Morpheme
Diagnostic tests
25. Was a major change in the pronunciation of the English language that took place in England between 1350 and 1500.[1] This was first studied by Otto Jespersen (1860-1943) - a Danish linguist and Anglicist - who coined the term. Because English spellin
Raw score
Chall's Stage 1
Great Vowel Shift
Fluency
26. A pattern of letters (found in a single syllable) which occurs frequently together. The pronunciation of at least one of the component parts is unexpected or the letters stand in an unexpected sequence ( ar - er - ir - or - us - qu - wh)
Standardized test
Combination
Oral Language
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
27. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.
Matthew Effect
Multi-Sensory Approach
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
Base Word
28. Present the parts of the language and then teaches how the parts work together to make a whole. Part of a MSLE Program
Profile
Academic Achievement Tests
Synthetic Instruction
Modification
29. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
Accent
Quadrigraph
Standard Scores
30. 1904 - reported 2 cases of "congenital word blindness" - called for schools to establish procedures for screening as well as appropriate teaching of those that were identified with congenital word-blindness
Breve
James Hinshelwood
VC
Modification
31. The term is also used for the language now called Old English - spoken and written by the ________ and their descendants in much of what is now England and some of southeastern Scotland between at least the mid-5th century and the mid-12th century.
Anglo Saxon
Macron
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Tactile
32. Selective focus on what is important while screening out distractions.
Chall's Stage 3
Phonemic/ decodable words
Mathew Effect
Attention
33. A morpheme attached to the end of a word that creates a word with a different form or use. Suffixes include inflected forms indicating tense - number - person and comparatives.
Keith Stanovich
Suffix
Cognitive Assessment
Social language
34. Given normal vision - the ability to recognize and interpret information taken in with the eye.
Mathew Effect
Visual Processing
Three Layers of Language
SBOE
35. Expects child to learn reading as "naturally" as speech - Uses child's oral language as content for reading - Uses child's oral language as basis for spelling instruction - Children learn to "read" by reading and re-reading "big books" together with
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36. Two vowels standing adjacent in the same syllable whose sounds blend smoothly together in one syllable. There are only four diphthongs in English. These are ou/out - ow/cow - oi/oil - oy - boy
IDEA
SBOE
Diphthong
Middle English
37. The teacher musts be adept at individualized teaching based on continual assessment of the student's needs. Content should be mastered to a level of automaticity.
Cognitive Assessment
IDEA
Diagnostic Teaching
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
38. Are standardized and measure your progress and achievements as a student.
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Percentile/ percentile rank
Academic Achievement Tests
39. Vowel - consonant - e syllable
Three Layers of Language
V-e
ESL
NICHD
40. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.
Mastery level
Consonant Digraph
Quadrigraph
Latin layer of language
41. Multisensory Structured Language
Standard Scores
MSL
NICHD
Open Syllable
42. Participate in classroom discussions - make speeches/presentations - use tape records during lectures - read text out loud - create musical jingles - create mnemonics to aid memorization - discuss ideas verbally
Visual Processing
The Norman Conquest
Auditory Learners
Phoneme
43. Reading can be learned as naturally as speaking - reading is focused on constructing meaning from texts using children's books rather than basal or controlled readers - reading is best learned in the context of the group - phonics is taught indirectl
Whole Language
Chall's Stage 5
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
Combination
44. State Board of Education Rule - District Board of Trustees must make sure dyslexia procedures are given to the district. - District must use SBOE approved strategies for screening and treating dyslexia
Reading Comprehension Support
Attention
Letter naming Chart
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
45. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound
The Norman Conquest
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Matthew Effect
Consonant Digraph
46. Making sense of what we read. Comprehension is dependent on good word recognition - fluency - vocabulary - worldly knowledge - and language ability.
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
IEP
Comprehension
Morphology
47. Attempt - Failure - Frustration - Avoidance - Lack of Practice - No improvement - Loss of esteem - loss of motivation = THIS
Norm-Referenced Test
Visual Processing
Mathew Effect
Kinesthetic
48. His research in the field of reading was fundamental to the emergence of today's scientific consensus about what reading is - how it works and what it does for the mind.
Matthew Effect
Tactile
Attention
Keith Stanovich
49. Standards of Personal Conduct - Standards of Professional Conduct - Conflict of Interest - Confidentiality
VV
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Modification
Consonant Digraph
50. Alphabetic principle" and its relationship to phonemic awareness and phonological awareness in reading
Reading Comprehension Support
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
Keith Stanovich
Latin layer of language